Results 30,401-30,420 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach would agree that is entirely unsatisfactory. Commissions of inquiry were never intended to keep basic truths from the public. Can the Taoiseach confirm the wording for the Irish language version of the marriage equality amendment to the Constitution? I thought there would be a statement to the House on that issue. It was the subject of correspondence from Bruce...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, the Taoiseach has not.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop trying to abuse the committee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Paudie McGahon is very clear in saying there were deliberate attempts to encourage him not to go near the Garda. He was very clear about that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why did you give them an amnesty for so long?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is just to dilute your culpability.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Used.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are organisations that have information which could be useful.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Since when are we all agreed on that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The McGuinness approach has been to dilute republican culpability in this. The McGuinness formula is a con job in many respects.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There must be a specific forum and mechanism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The strategy of Sinn Féin has always been-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----to bury what it does not like from the past. It is selective in what it wants interrogated about the past.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what Sinn Féin has always been about.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I accept the Taoiseach's bona fides in endeavouring to deal with this issue. He is correct in saying that, in the Paudie McGahon case, we are talking about a safe house. I think Deputy Adams and those in Sinn Féin-IRA will have been very well aware of the circumstances of this for a long time, just as they were well aware of the Maíria Cahill case for a long time but chose to do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: What allegations have I made?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am just referring to the Dáil debate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but the context of my question is the establishing of a mechanism to deal with this on the public record. This is not an allegation. I am not making an allegation at all in regard to this. Deputy Adams himself has said that this is the way the Provisional IRA dealt with these issues, and that it was unfortunate and that it was a pity it happened that way. He then tried to say it was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It just beggars belief that he would come forward here and pretend that he knows nothing about this-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----or about the procedures or protocols, and so on. It just beggars belief. That is the point in regard to all of it. This is not something new. I think the Taoiseach needs to work with either the British Prime Minister or the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland in regard to facilitating victims coming forward to deal with these issues.